The court upheld convictions that included his role in the death of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica, Europe’s worst mass murder since the Holocaust
— The United Nations’ tribunal for atrocities committed during the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia confirmed convictions of genocide and war crimes against Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and extended his initial sentence to life in prison.
The court upheld convictions that included his role in the death of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the town of Srebrenica, Europe’s worst mass murder since the Holocaust. He was also convicted for the forced deportation of people, taking hostages and for staging the 44-month siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo.
Karadzic, one of the tribunal’s most high-profile targets along with his military commander Ratko Mladic and the late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic, appealed the initial verdict, along with prosecutors. He sought to overturn it, while the prosecutors demanded a life sentence and guilty verdict on more counts for which he was acquitted.
Serbs seized around 70 percent of Bosnia, then settled for 49 percent under the 1995, U.S.-mediated Dayton peace accord that left Bosnia semi-divided into two autonomous entities, the Serb-run Republika Srpska and the so-called Federation for Muslims and Croats. A weak central government and a three-member presidency are meant to hold the country together but are often dysfunctional.
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